By
Senators
Adelman, Fitzgerald, Rude, Breske, Roessler, Burke, Huelsman, Weeden, Grobschmidt and Farrow; cosponsored by Representatives Huebsch, Ourada, Dobyns, Foti, Ward, L. Young, La Fave, Owens, Wood, Walker, Staskunas, Notestein, Gronemus, Meyer, Huber, Nass, Olsen, R. Potter and Wasserman.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 322
Relating to: certification requirements for dietitians.
By
Senators
Moen, Roessler, Breske, Rosenzweig, Burke, Farrow and Huelsman; cosponsored by Representatives Urban, Robson, Handrick, Carpenter, Bock, M. Lehman, Meyer, Ott, La Fave, Porter, Duff, Seratti, Kreibich, Plale, Notestein, Kelso and Springer.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 323
Relating to: various changes to the worker's compensation law.
By
Senators
Plache and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Vrakas and Vander Loop.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 324
Relating to: allowing audiologists to engage in the practice of fitting and selling hearing aids without obtaining a hearing instrument specialist license, continuing education for hearing instrument specialists, audiologists and speech-language pathologists and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Moen, Burke, Fitzgerald, Breske and Grobschmidt; cosponsored by Representatives Underheim, Bock, Kaufert, Jensen, Kunicki, La Fave, Johnsrud, Lorge and Olsen.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 325
Relating to: the amount of assistance for funeral or burial expenses of recipients under certain benefits and assistance programs and the value of an irrevocable burial trust that is excluded from the resource determination under the medical assistance program.
By
Senator
Moen
; cosponsored by Representatives Underheim, Hasenohrl, Kelso, Plouff, Seratti, Lorge and Albers.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
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The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 326
Relating to: creating a tuition protection program for students enrolled in proprietary schools, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Introduction.
Ayes, 7 - Senators C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman and Roessler.
Noes, 0 - None.
To committee on Education.
Calvin Potter
Chairperson
Wisconsin State Senator
Richard Grobschmidt
October 13, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am currently serving on the Commission on Privatization. Do to scheduling conflicts and my legislative workload, I request that I be removed as a member of this Commission.
Thank you for your assistance in this request. Should you have any questions, or require further information, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Richard Grobschmidt
State Senator
7th Senate District
State of Wisconsin
Department of Transportation
October 7, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
The enclosed report has been sent to you pursuant to sec. 1.11(2)(j), Stats. This statute states:
"Annually, no later than September 15, submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172(2), including the number of proposed actions for which the agency conducted an assessment of whether an impact statement was required under par. (c) and the number of impact statements prepared under par. (c)."
This report addresses the activities of the Department of Transportation for Fiscal Year 1997, the period from July 1, 1996 to June 30, 1997.
We apologize for the tardiness of this report.
Sincerely,
Charles H. Thompson
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems
and the Retirement Research Committee
October 9, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
Enclosed is a copy of the Reports of the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems to the 1995 Legislature. I would appreciate it if you would note in the next Journal of the Senate that this report has been filed in your office and that limited copies are available from the Committee office.
Sincerely,
Debra K. Breggeman
Program Assistant
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
October 1, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
State statute s.
46.277(5m) requires that the Department of Health and Family Services submit a report to the Legislature each year by October 1, describing the cost and quality of services used under the Medicaid Waiver Program and the extent to which existing services have been used under the program in the preceding calendar year. The attached report covers calendar year 1996 activity for the Community Options Program Waiver and the Community Integration Program II.
These programs are designed to relocate or divert elderly and physically disabled persons from nursing homes and finance their care with Medicaid in a community setting. The level of Medicaid waiver funding must be no greater than the Medicaid cost for nursing home care. This annual report demonstrates that Wisconsin is in compliance with these regulations.
Sincerely,
joe leean
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
October 14, 1997
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7),
Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organizations recently registered:
Below are the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Atlantic Richfield Co (ARCO)
Subject(s): Product liability, lead paint related legislation.
Broydrick, William
McIntosh, Forbes
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Optometric Assn, Wisconsin
Theo, Peter
Smokeless Tobacco Council Inc
Osborne, Patrick
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individuals are no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organizations listed below, as of the dates indicated.
